IngelsFan

On 7/2/2023 at 8:47 AM, october said:

I think this one would easily break $500 in 5.0, but who knows. Only one copy on the census and probably my rarest comic overall. 

Love Nazi superweapon covers...this has to be the toughest one out there. 

 

That is AMAZING! I’ve never seen this one.

On 6/30/2023 at 9:09 PM, The-Collector said:

US Marines 8 VG-. Nice color strike for this issue where the reds are often faded to orange. How about $150?

On 6/29/2023 at 11:00 AM, sagii said:

Only 6 copies on the census

 

Man that’s a great book. Congrats!

On 6/27/2023 at 5:23 PM, Robot Man said:

Here is a similar EC story.

Probably around 35 years ago, I used to frequent a local book store. It was owned by a guy around 15-20 years older than me. He only sold new comics, mags, sc-fi books ect. I got all my current books there. Some times when it was slow we would talk and he told me about the "old days" of buying/reading comics. Although I knew about and had some GA books, he educated me about some of the lessor known superheroes and other books.

He found out I was an EC lover and collector. He and his brother bought them off the racks. I of course asked if he had any of those old books but he told me they went up in a house fire in Oakland, CA a long time ago.

One day around Christmas he handed me an envelope and said Merry Christmas. Somehow this survived. It had belonged to his brother. My eyes bugged out of their sockets. He said, If I promised never to sell it, it was mine. I have kept my word. Who in their right mind would ever sell something as cool as this for mere money? 

Man, that’s awesome!

On 6/24/2023 at 5:35 AM, catrick339 said:

The Long Walk, Signet AE 3539
Second title by Richard Bachman, pen name for Stephen King. 

Third print. Stated first printing, but the line of numbers beneath starts with  3. 
Very minor general wear, mostly tiny ink chips, with a couple small indentations BC. 
Flat and square, glossy, untouched interior, and the pages are white. No fading, the red is bright. 

Asking $100 
 

Take please

On 6/22/2023 at 12:38 PM, catrick339 said:

Oh, all right. Just for PopKulture, I'll post another this afternoon.

This time I took a photo of the spine, I'd appreciate any feedback from observers as to any preference, scan vs photo.

Gang Girl, Beacon 135
Front cover is sharp, spine is slightly indented, back cover is almost as nice, but there's a faint dust shadow along the spine and 
a whiff of general wear.  A friend told me I should be asking forty bucks for this one, but I think that might be a stretch.

Spine photo to be added shortly.

Asking $30
 

On 6/6/2023 at 7:28 AM, sfcityduck said:

Seifert looked for a DC trademark filing for double action around the time 2 came out and did not find it.  Since that is the only reason to do an ashcan he went with the theory above. But now that we know there was a Double Action 1 the question is whether there was a trademark granted around that time.  If not, then I think that bolsters his theory.  Why would DC test a title for which they did not own the TM?  They would not. But would they print up a few to coerce  an agreement with MLJ? Yeah seems like a good reason. 

Very well-reasoned assertion. If we go with that theory, then what about the outliers? The low graded copies are a mystery. Looking at just the issues that have been graded, we have one 9.4, two 9.2, and one 3.0 for blue labels. The qualified 9.0 is a mystery (maybe a frankenstein cobbled together-that might possibly explain the restored 0.5). Then there are the 5.5 and 0.5 restoreds. I can understand why people WANT it to have been distributed on a newsstand and the existence of lower graded copies would certainly seem to support that assertion (i.e. the ones from the Sol Harrison estate would have been in a file the whole time and should all be roughly the same condition). Now let’s muddy the waters a little more: where did Ian’s copy originate? It isn’t on the census (unless it was slabbed after the only picture of the collection I’ve seen circulating was taken), and it doesn’t appear to be in high grade condition. So, either there were X number of these printed up, never circulated, then at some point given out as souvenirs to visitors at DC’s offices, or they were distributed on at least one newsstand. Maybe one close to MLJ’s offices, so that they would be sure to see them? The offices were 2 1/2 miles apart so that wouldn’t be too difficult…..

We will likely never know for certain but it is fun to theorize.

As extra fuel for pontification, how many copies would have been in that print run?

On 6/5/2023 at 1:04 AM, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said:

I assume you mean E. Nelson Bridwell. Do you know if he had an extensive collection of pre-hero DC's?

Yes and while there were more pre-hero DC’s than I had ever seen in one place at the time, I’m not sure you’d call it extensive. I was working for Phil Levine at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair the year he bought the collection. I ended up with More Fun 9, 11, 13 and 23, and New Comics 2 and 3. He had New Fun 2-6, and a few other More Funs. Oddly enough there were no New Adventures or early Adventure in the collection.

On 6/4/2023 at 11:00 PM, lou_fine said:

Absolutely love the adventure covers like NA 26 a whole lot more than the earlier "humour" style covers on the earlier pre-hero DC books.  

From reading Gary Carter's pre-hero DC article in either Overstreet 12 or 13, I still remember him pointing out early pre-hero books like New Comics 2, New Fun 2, and the Big Book of Fun comics as possibly being the rarest DC books.  Not sure about the latter two since CGC doesn't grade them but it would appear that New Comcs 2 is tough to find in grade at only 5 Universal copies to date, with the highest being the Billy Wright copy coming in at CGC 2.0.    

BTW:  Big time congrats to you on your stupendous "to die for" Church copy of New Adventure Comics 26.  

New Comics 2 is one of my favorite early DC covers. First DC Christmas cover, First Federal Men, and pretty tough to find. It’s one that catches my eye anytime it’s up for sale. I know of only 2 copies that aren’t slabbed. One was from Bridwell’s collection, I bought it in 1987 and sold it in 1991. It had about 75% of the cover and was fairly brittle. The other one sold last October on eBay and had a completely split spine. 

On 6/4/2023 at 4:42 PM, sfcityduck said:

I disagree.  Plenty of Action 1s still raw.  Less need to get a NA 26 slabbed. New Adventure 26 is exactly the type of book that gets buried in collections b/c of the Action 1 ad.  I suspect that the raw population is higher for that than DA 2 by a fair amount.

I still wonder what Double Action 2 really was.  Was it ever circulated?  The jury seems out on that one.  Weird book.

Ian thought "How to Defend ..." was the rarest DC and there are less copies on the census.  But, I'm not sure it is really a comic - definitely a comic format DC publication that you need for a complete DC collection - but not really a narrative story. Plus, they are still showing up in the wild.

 

I would LOVE to know the story of DA2. Even the title seems like an odd choice since it would be more likely to be confused with Action Comics which by then had already been around for 2 years. Supposedly the restored 5.5 was originally bought on a newsstand in NYC. The Comic Connect listing for the DAC 1 ashcan and DAC 2 says that it made it to a few magazine racks in NYC. I would love to know the source of this information. Was this a test run for the title? By this point DC was all in on superheroes, yet this one contained no superhero stories (unless you count Dr Occult), and the book was all reprints. So many questions….

On 6/4/2023 at 11:00 AM, Mmehdy said:

I recall  in 2016/7  that a 9.4 unrestored CGC copy along with issue 1 of double action comics sold for $80,000 at CC...in that positing it was remarked that the #1 with a black and white cover was even rarer than the number 2...either way it is kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity to get one...with pedigree.

The #1 was an ashcan, and the #2 was a 9.2 on December 15, 2016. That was an unbelievable opportunity.

On 6/4/2023 at 10:57 AM, Robot Man said:

Indeed! And underrated. Great Ogden Whitney cover. Great water. And has a "Wolvertonish" feel to it. Lousy way to go...

Reminds me of this Bill Everett classic. 

Great cover! The look of sheer terror on their faces is done really well.

For a post-code cover, this one really packs a punch. 

Since there are a handful of us going after the Double Action 2, anyone want to get the jump on a prediction of what the final hammer will be?